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Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP

posted by janrinok on Monday January 08 2018, @08:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the suspected-is-now-guilty dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Internet slowdowns at home aren't just annoying anymore. They can be hazardous to your health or dangerous if you're in an area that freezes.

Internet service provider Armstrong Zoom has roughly a million subscribers in the Northeastern part of the U.S. and is keen to punish those it believes are using file-sharing services.

The ISP's response to allegedly naughty customers is bandwidth throttling -- which is when an ISP intentionally slows down your internet service based on what you're doing online. In this case, when said ISP believes you're doing something illegal.

As part of its throttling routine, Armstrong Zoom's warning letter openly threatens its suspected file-sharing customers about its ability to use or control their webcams and connected thermostats.

The East Coast company stated: "Please be advised that this may affect other services which you may have connected to your internet service, such as the ability to control your thermostat remotely or video monitoring services."

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/05/pirates-risk-being-left-in-the-cold/

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday January 08 2018, @09:23PM (3 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday January 08 2018, @09:23PM (#619714) Journal

    We need an Open Source, Citizen's alternative to corporate-controlled networks. Mesh networks are one, but laggy. Would it make more sense to launch a whole bunch of cubesats that sidestep the AT&Ts of the world?

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  • (Score: 1) by tftp on Monday January 08 2018, @09:57PM

    by tftp (806) on Monday January 08 2018, @09:57PM (#619738) Homepage
    No. They have not enough power. Ground tracking of a low orbit sat is possible, but pretty hard for a non-ham. There is also the issue of the RF bandwidth (not enough for the high bit rate) and varying latency. A modern citizen can easily consume 20-50 Mbps, peaking higher. Routing this on a mesh will result in bottlenecks. There is nearly zero I/O within the mesh.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by NotSanguine on Monday January 08 2018, @10:10PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Monday January 08 2018, @10:10PM (#619745) Homepage Journal

    We need an Open Source, Citizen's alternative to corporate-controlled networks.

    Yep. It's called "municipal FTTH" [techtarget.com] or "last mile" [wikipedia.org] infrastructure, with ISPs connecting to those networks and *competing* on price, performance, quality of service, features and (lack of) abusive TOS.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday January 09 2018, @01:30PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday January 09 2018, @01:30PM (#619986) Journal

    We need the Soylnet. Come on TMB!

    Soylnet? Soylentnet? Intersoyl?
    Peoplenet!!

    Supposably? Supposably.
    Someone ate Ethanol-Fuelled and spontaneously combusted? Supposably!

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